Tag: antibiotics in meat
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2017 Could Be A Terrible Tipping Point for Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious public health issues facing our world today. Find out why now is the time to pay attention and take action. And discover how you can learn how to treat infections without antibiotics to protect yourself and your family.
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Voluntary Regulation of Antibiotics in Livestock Production is Not Working
Before the discovery of antibiotics, people could and did die from a simple cut and those days are returning thanks to antibiotic resistance warned Dr. Sameer Patel, an infectious disease specialist at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, in 2014. Many blame the indiscriminate use of antibiotics by “Big Meat” for the rise in antibiotic resistance. Recently, I caught up…
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Six better reasons not to eat pork
By Michele Simons • Originally published on Aljazeera America The risk of cancer from processed meat may be small, but that doesn’t let bacon lovers off the hook The media love a good food scare. So when the World Health Organization recently announced a scientific review of 800 studies that showed an increased cancer risk…
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Redefining Good Food at the Nation’s Largest Casual Restaurant Company
By Kari Hamerschlag, Friends of the Earth In these busy times, we spend nearly half our food budgets eating out. This means that big restaurant chains have an enormous influence on what we eat and how food is produced – and a lot of power to move our food system in a better direction. Unfortunately,…
